From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual PC 6 PCI device probe failure In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:35:19 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dc1181b2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed Jun 25 16:21:29 EDT 2003, mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca wrote: > Ron has the greatest desire to fix this, but keeps getting distracted.. > Maybe someday... > > I don't know enough low-level hardware details to do it myself (they don't > teach these things in school anymore). > > It comes down to configuring IRQs on peripheral devices using the BIOS (or > whatever's there) instead of trusting what the device thinks it has for an > IRQ. > > andrey > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, David Presotto wrote: > > > more to do with lack of neurons/time on our part. > > None of this really hits the target. The Plan9 code doesn't use the BIOS calls because it is sometimes used on hardware which doesn't have a BIOS, it just does the work itself.